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Some Special Characters are not able to be used in the Application Filter

Within the GROUPS > Application Filter settings I am unable to use ## or $$ or even AB???? on VOLSER filter.
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Delivered

ITM for TSM agent (SK) is un-usable in existing environment

ITM for Tivoli Storage Manager is only offered as an all-inclusive ITM installation (utilizing the much loathed DE no less..) This packaging is different than any other ITM agent offered by IBM that we have seen. It makes remotely deploying, maint...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

TSM Banner for login

Ability to define a login banner for any CLI or GUI TSM Admin login e.g. Define the login banner on the TSM using an external txt file:Define loginbanner file=/full/path/to/file.txt
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Syslog capability to capture all internal/external commands executed to external log collection location

request is to add syslog type function (similar to SVC) that records commands executed by all users (including dial-in support) and make that syslog viewable to an external source (log server) for review
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

FS9200 FQDN Support in GUI for NTP, LDAP

Client (Alex Offord) wishes for the GUI to properly support the FQDN support that is provided for LDAP and NTP.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

FS9000 - FQDN Support for SKLM, SNMP, Email Relay, Syslog

Client (Alex Offord) wishes for GUI and DSCLI to support additional FQDN items including SNMP, Email Relay, SKLM, Syslog, and any others he has failed to mention.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Tape Drive Protection Feature to Prevent a Foreign Tape to be read

With the implementation of zCloud and IBM ATL being shared among several different customers. It is possible that a physical tape created by customer A be read in on customer B system by bypassing the tape management system (CA1, RMM, TLMS etc) on...
over 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Delivered

chmod: Use version that supports NFSv4 ACLs

The version of chmod linked below fully supports the manipulation of NFSv4 ACLs. This is the version that Isilon OneFS uses and it's fantastic. I can add/remove Active Directory users and groups, modify permissions, add ACL control flags, etc., al...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

SVC Support for Windows NTP Service

Currently SVC and V7000 is not compatible with NTP-service provided by windows-operatingsystem (windows server 2008 R2). Requested feature should support the NTP service of Windows. BTW, DS8000 and Brocade SAN switches supports this already.
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Add compression format options - lz4 for sure, maybe xz

Spectrum Scale 4.2 added support for zlib compression. zlib is moderate compression, and low-medium speed. The implementation allows for compression as a foreground command, or background action. Either is likely to be slow. Decompression can be d...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

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